handle, door
National Museum of American History

handle, door

c. 1790

metal, iron (overall material)
National Museum of American History
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of American History

Wrought iron thumb latch with decorative cusps, which have rococo-scroll terminal. Latch handle incised with diagonal crossed lines within two pairs of horizontal lines. Thumb press-left-latch passes through top of handle.

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